Should we call him the man of the hundred recordings or the lute wizard? Even such qualifications would not do him justice. He did more than a hundred recordings, he also plays the theorbo and the guitar, he teaches, does research and organizes festivals. With his deep, sensitive and imaginative musical sense, he tells us innumerable tales, triggering off innumerable emotions, playing pieces and instruments whose most genuine vital principles he succeeded in rediscovering. Indeed, he is a virtuoso player, but above all,he is a man of music. Of course, the Elizabethan repertoire is of particular concern to him; yet his range of interests is much wider, as is obvious from the programme he has concocted for his fourth performance at the Théâtre des Abbesses. He has chosen pieces for the lute by sixteenth-century Italian composers, da L’Aquila, da Milano, de Rippe, a selection that we are invited to discover with him.
Gérard Mannoni
MARCO DA L’AQUILA, ALBERT DE RIPPE, FRANCESCO DA MILANO Fantasias, ricercari and songs from the early 16th century
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